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单词 dartford
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Dartfordn.

Brit. /ˈdɑːtfəd/, U.S. /ˈdɑrtfərd/
Etymology: < the name of a town in Kent near where the bird was first seen in England.
Ornithology.
Dartford warbler n. a small dark Old World warbler, Sylvia undata, of heaths and scrublands in southern Europe and parts of North Africa and southern England.
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Dartford warbler1776
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1776 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (ed. 4, octavo) I. Pl. LVI Dartford warbler... A pair of these were shot on a common near Dartford, in April 1773, and communicated to me by Mr. Latham.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Warbler—Dartford The Dartford Warbler, so called from having been first discovered in England near that place..a pair having been killed on Bexley Heath, near Dartford, on the 10th of April, 1773.
1853 F. O. Morris Hist. Brit. Birds III. 256 The Dartford Warbler is exclusively confined to heaths and commons.
1930 J. Huxley Bird-watching & Bird Behaviour ii. 27 I saw my first dartford warbler, my first smew, Montagu's harrier, and so on.
1965 P. Wayre Wind in Reeds ii. 19 The tiny Dartford warbler, the only warbler to brave the English winter.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 405/2 The heathland..is the habitat..of many insects and of the Dartford Warbler.
1989 Times 9 Feb. 18/3 Britain's small population of Dartford Warblers is now heavily concentrated in one area, the New Forest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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